AUDIENCE FOR: Rupert

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Comments

[agleam]

For you!

Gemini seems like it must have a pretty big meaning

[guestservices]

Perhaps...
But perhaps that is also an elaboration for another time. Surely you have other questions? Complaints?

[agleam]

I have a lot of complaints but I get the idea that won't be very productive so

[guestservices]

You never know.
Some things may be easier to resolve than others.

[agleam]

Unless you can send me home and save my hostage without having to provide some kind of entertainment for the next indeterminate amount of time, I think the chief complaint is going to stay unresolved

[guestservices]

Fair enough.
Tell me a little more about your hostage?

[agleam]

Why

[guestservices]

Are you opposed?

[agleam]

I want to know why you're asking

[guestservices]

Curiosity.
They must be important for you to sign the contract.
And there is a difference in knowing and hearing directly from the source.

[agleam]

I'd like to hear what you know, first.

[guestservices]

Your fiance, I believe. In a state that currently is not living.

[agleam]

[there's a pause for like ten minutes, before]

Is he still

I thought since I signed it he would be safe immediately and as long as I cooperated

[guestservices]

It appears several of you did not fully read the terms outlined in your contract.
However, I believe that once these terms are fulfilled he will be returned to you.
He's safe for now, but if he remains that way is up to you.

[agleam]

So he's alive right now

[guestservices]

If that motivates you.

[agleam]

It's either true or it's not

[guestservices]

And it either motivates you or it doesn't.

[agleam]

If it didn't motivate me why would I even be here

[guestservices]

That's precisely my point.
Focus on that.

1/2

[agleam]

I don't need you to tell me that

Don't act like you care when you won't even give me a straight answer about whether he

[agleam]

[that message ends abruptly and a minute or two passes]

Sorry

Just

Ask me something else if you're curious

[guestservices]

[there's a few minutes of silence.]

An apology is unnecessary.
Unless you didn't mean how you felt, and I imagine that's untrue.

[agleam]

I just

It's a sore spot obviously

That's an understatement but it's not an excuse

[guestservices]

You're strangely polite about this.